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Buck’s colleagues wanted to call
his tasty, battered, breaded, deep
fried product “squish balls.” But
Buck had a better idea for the
“trash-fish” food he had developed
from red hake and squid in his
University of Massachusetts-
Amherst laboratory. He called it
“ocean nuggets.”
At the University of Alaska-
Fairbanks, Alan Epps has a
similar problem as he tries to
figure out how to produce and
market reindeer sausage. He
wonders whether everyone would
be better off if reindeer meat were
called “Alaskan venison” instead.
Law Still Thrives
Both Buck and Epps are
beneficiaries of a federal program
that is still going strong in its
centennial year. The Hatch Act of
1887 set up agricultural ex
periment stations at land-grant
colleges in each of the nation’s
states and territories and provided
them with money for research on
local, regional, and sometimes
national agricultural problems.
The Hatch Act system has come
under occasional attack; the
Carter administration, for
example, tried to replace its for
mula funding process with a
competitive-grant method. But
Congress resisted, as it has con
sistently, and restated its support
of the Hatch Act in the 1981 farm
bill.
Today, the Hatch Act continues
to provide money for agricultural
research on problems large and
small, from basic questions about
how the mammary glands of dairy
animals secrete milk to practical
matters such as how to use
soybeans or maple sugar in
making yogurt.
Federal financing amounted to
$148.8 million in each of the past
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